The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.


Farmers are busy.
Railroad news scarce.
The trees are in bloom.
Health of Eaton is good.
Fruit prospect never better. :
June taxes will soon be ripe.
Why not start up a creamery?
Eaton is a slow town-too slow.
The young wheat now looks we'll.
Eggs are 10 cents per dozen now and
very plenty.
The milliners' windows are all abloom
and look like flower gardens.
Fishing poles from Be. up, at John
Lander's. 2
Even New Paris has raised $40, 900 to
bore for gas.
No man who is able and willing to
work need now be idle in Eaton.
81. B. Van Ausdal and wife are visit
ing in Alabama.
The barefooted boy hasn't made his
appearance on our streets yet.
Not many people believe in weather
signs any
The BARRIERS say 1t is about time to
discard full boards.
Spend your money where you make
it-at home.
Lawns and sodded yards begin to
look beautiful.
The painters, paper hangers and car
penters are all busy.
Greenvi1le will have a grand band
tournament on the list of June.
Rubber bustles are the next new fash
ionable craze.
Go to John Lander's for your fishing
tackle. (apr28-2
ssThe flowers that bloom in the spring.
are out.
1t won't do for Eaton to be behind in
the procession of gas progress.
The strawberry crop will be large
this year-the bottom of the boxes the
same.
If boring for gas proves a success in
Eaton things will be mighty lively
hereabouts.
BY the time Eaton gets ready to bore
for gas all the big manufactures will
have gone to other towns.
BY an amendedlaw, judges and clerks
of an election will hereafter be paid
$500 per day instead of $3.50.
Spring chickens, lamb, green peas
and strawberries will soon tickle the
palate of the %epicureans.
Curtain poles.-Black, cherry and
walnut poles. TowNsEND's, Minors
Block.
We will know definitely inside of two
weeks the fate Of the Dayton and Liber-
ty railway enterprise.
Rev. j. g. Bishop is on the sick list,
and was not able to hold his usual SER
vice last Sabbath.
Azgas meeting will be held at the OPP
era House on this Thursday evening.
A general turn out is requested.
The sweet girl graduate thinketh
about the coming commencement and
what will l wea
In this latitude it isn't safe to sing
the praises of spring much before the
last of June.
We knew it would come. The Della
ware peach crop is again seriously in
jured.
The fishing season is at hand and
Lander will fit you up for the fun.
Eaton will soon be robedin her beau
tiful spring attire and viii be inviting
to strangers.
Marks Nation has leased the Van Do
rem stone quarry west of the cemetery
and has gone to work to develop its
richness.
If you want to know what is said
about you in your absence, draw the in
ference from what is said of others in
your presence.
Business houses that advertise want
your trade and will treat you fairly and
give you good bargains SO as to retain
your custom.
Twenty-one citizens of Clermont
county put s62.45o into Findlay specu-
lations and realized $16s, 800. Wait un-
TIL we strike gas in Eaton.
Black Silks..Persons desiring to pur-
chase silk will find that Townsend's
9sc. and $1.l0 black silk can't be beat.
Opp. Court House.
J. w. Allen, Of ssold Monroe" drop
ped in on Saturday last and paid for
his AID years subscription to the DEM
ocRAr. Long may he live.
The Arcanum gas well was shot with
nitro-glycerine, but failed to prove a
sgusher'' by a long shot. Other ones
will be drilled in the place.
Life insurance is an institution which
keeps a man poor as long as he lives, SO
that he may leave something for the
support of his wife's second husband.
Rev. c. J. Jones, editor of the Herald
of Gospel Liberty, Dayton, o., will
preach in the Christian church next
Sabbath morning and evening. Come
and hear him.
In Greenville, Middletown, and other
rural cities, forty or fifty thousand dol
lars is subscribed in n evening to bore
for gas. In Eaton it takes a month to
raise s10,OOoi
just received, another new lot of
Dress Goods, and persons who have not
bought will find them the latest.
2w TOWNSEND, opp. Court House.
~ fpl.1 go. z,-:ol1a-c $685. -,